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1. Re: H.264 Blu Ray will play in most players, H.264 will not. Is this true?
JSS1138 Apr 8, 2013 7:31 PM (in response to EdwurdAdam)Please don't copy/paste your posts. It leaves unnecessary code throughout.
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2. Re: H.264 Blu Ray will play in most players, H.264 will not. Is this true?
EdwurdAdam Apr 8, 2013 7:43 PM (in response to JSS1138)Hi,
Sorry I did not know that. I will type it again now.
I was told that H.264 is a Unoversal format, but to make it play to Blu-Ray standards, you must use H.264 Blu-Ray. If not, it may not play in all Blu-Ray type players.
The same goes for MPEG-2 Vs. MPEG-2 DVD.
Is this true.
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Thanks in adavance (Again, sorry about the copy and paste, it won't happen again)
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3. Re: H.264 Blu Ray will play in most players, H.264 will not. Is this true?
John T Smith Apr 8, 2013 9:05 PM (in response to EdwurdAdam)A DVD is much lower resolution than a BluRay... so, to "make it play to Blu-Ray standards" you need to use a BluRay setting
While you should be able to use a DVD specification file on a BluRay... it is certainly not going to be at a BluRay resolution
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4. Re: H.264 Blu Ray will play in most players, H.264 will not. Is this true?
Richard M Knight Apr 9, 2013 1:21 AM (in response to EdwurdAdam)I think I'm right in saying that the difference between H 264 and H264 Bluray is that in straight H264 the audio is multiplexed in with the video and in the Bluray version it is rendered out as two separate files. If I'm wrong I'm sure someone will correct me.
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5. Re: H.264 Blu Ray will play in most players, H.264 will not. Is this true?
Rallymax-forum Apr 9, 2013 10:47 AM (in response to Richard M Knight)to phrase the answer another way...
h.264 for Bluray is a subset of the full h.264 standard.
Why? Because it has constrictions on it so that the bluray player's silicon-chip h.264 decoder doesn't have to be overly complicated (thus cheaper)..
So, while a non bluray h.264 stream MAY play on a bluray player, it isn't EXPECTED too.
As an example - if you compare the h.264 to the h.264 bluray columns you'll see that h.264 has "Levels" 3.0...5.2 but BR only has a subset of those. Likewise for the "Profile" and Screen Resolutions @ specific FrameRates.
Note that both are h.264/AVC encodings, it's just that the BD version is allows far less combinations of settings.
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Tech Specs
Output x264 PROBD x264PRO Video H.264 AVC Elementary Stream (.264) H.264 AVC Elementary Stream (.264) Audio Linear PCM (.wav) Linear PCM (.wav)
Advanced Audio Codec (.aac)Multiplexer MPEG-4 Video (.m4v)
MPEG-4 Video and Audio (.mp4) (AAC only)
Quicktime (.mov)Supported standard Blu-ray H.264 Encoding Method CBR/VBR 1 pass encoding/VBR 2 pass encoding/Constant Quality Video codec H.264 AVC H.264 AVC AVC Profile Main, High Baseline, Main, High Supported level High 4.0, 4.1
Main 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 4.0, 4.13.0, 3.1, 3.2, 4.0, 4.1, 5.0, 5.1, 5.2 Resolution Frame Rate 1920x1080x29.97i, 25i (16:9)
1920x1080x24p, 23.976p (16:9)
1440x1080x59.94i, 50i (16:9)
1440x1080x24p, 23.976p (16:9)
1280x720x59.94p, 50p (16:9)
1280x720x24p, 23.976p (16:9)
720x480x59.94i (4:3/16:9)
720x576x50i (4:3/16:9)Variable (16×16 – 4096×2304)
Frame rate : 12, 12.5, 15, 23.976, 24, 25, 29.97, 30, 48, 50, 59.94, 60, 120Bit rate 1Kbps – 40Mbps 1Kbps – 300Mbps Audio codec Linear PCM Linear PCM
Advanced Audio CodecAudio channels Mono, Stereo, 5.1 Mono, Stereo, 5.1 Audio bit depth 8, 16, 24, 32bit (LPCM) 8, 16, 24, 32bit (LPCM) Audio bit rate n/a 56 – 320kbps (AAC) Sampling rate 8, 16, 32, 44.1, 48, 96KHz 8, 16, 32, 44.1, 48, 96KHz




